I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I've heard that everyone is capable of killing, and those who say they aren't just haven't met the right person. An armed stranger entering my country might just be the right person.”
Source: Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”
“I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true after watching the corpse of myself walk around.”
Source: Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir
“I’ve heard that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you’re hyper-aware of what’s happening around you.
As the shuttle careens toward the earth, the exact opposite is true for me.
Everything silences, even the screams and shouts from the people on the other side of the metal door, the crashes that I pray aren’t bodies, the hissing of rockets, Elder’s cursing, my pounding heartbeat.
I feel nothing—not the seat belt biting into my flesh, not my clenching jaw, nothing. My whole body is numb.
Scent and taste disappear.
The only thing about my body that works is my eyes,and they are filled with the image before them. The ground seems to leap up at us as we hurtle toward it. Through the blurry image of the world below us, I see the outline of land—a continent. And at once, my heart lurches with the desire to know this world, to make it our home. My eyes drink up the image of the planet—and my stomach sinks with the knowledge that this is a coastline I’ve never seen before. I could spin a globe of Earth around and still be able to recognize the way Spain and Portugal reach into the Atlantic, the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, the pointy end of India. But this continent—it dips and curves in ways I don’t recognize, swirls into an unknown sea, creating peninsulas in shapes I do not know, scattering out islands in a pattern I cannot connect.
And it’s not until I see this that I realize: this world may one day become our home,but it will never be the home I left behind.”
Source: Shades of Earth
“I’ve heard that you’re in the pain business. I don’t like doing work for that kind of man,” said Vincent Calvino. Casey rolled his neck and a small cracking noise echoed from the bones inside. “If you worked only for people you liked, you wouldn’t cover your rent.”
“I’ve heard the band is supposed to be out of this world,” Miss Vicks was saying.”
Source: Duplex
“I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.
The god of the dead.”
Source: Jane Unwrapped
“I've heard the race to Mars is because "The King",
Elvis is stuck up there running low on peanut butter!!”
“I've heard the story about the woman who opened the box and let havoc grab a choke hold on the world.”
Source: White Horse
“I’ve heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them.”
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food."
[...]
“But the Refuge food is too cooperative,” he grumbled. “How much blood do they think I can drink?”
Source: Archangel's Enigma
“I've heard the words "BUT THEY ARE FAMILY" one time too many times. My intent is to create a positive family atmosphere that no one will have to put "BUT THEY ARE" in front of ever again.”
“I've heard we all return to water sometime.”
Source: Heat and Light
“I've heard you say so many a time
That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines to rhyme...
Today it's been 7 years since we last met
I have learnt to say just the wrong words, just the lines you hate....”
Source: The Farewell and other poems
“I've heard "you've changed" a million times, and you think I'm glad to hear it? I don't need someone to tell me I've changed; every action I take is aimed at change. It simply makes me sad because those individuals might have attempted to understand who I've become instead of viewing me as someone who was good and became evil.”
“I’ve held her a thousand times in my dreams, and I have died a thousand times upon waking.”
“I’ve held on to those memories for the longest; never
letting them go because it takes time – sometimes years –
to truly understand how a childhood adventure can impact
you.
When I look back, I marvel at how surreal that day had
been. It was the kind of misadventure one had only seen
in the movies and in all those stories the protagonists were
adults, some of whom did not make it. But we were just
children, and this was happening to us. And this was as real
as it could get.
For years after, numerous existential questions raced
through my head: Was God testing us? Were we handpicked
for it? Was it preordained? Th en the fog started to lift and I
saw it for what it was: a day in the jungle. Also, a day when
everything went wrong. I’d read somewhere that adversity
does not build character, it reveals it. We were tested, we
were pushed to the limits of our physical and emotional
endurance. We made it out alive, and it is important that
this experience be shared.”
Source: Invictus
“I´ve held you in my heart since the day you left me.
But you´re too heavy to carry another step.
And I need to keep moving.”
Source: Saga, Volume 8
“I’ve helped you when I could, Caine. I’ve done all of it. I kept you alive and changed your filthy crap-stained sheets when the Darkness held you. I betrayed Jack for you. I’ve betrayed everyone for you. I ate…God forgive me, I ate human flesh to stay with you, Caine!”
Something flickered in Caine’s cold gaze.
“I won’t stay with you for this,”
Source: Lies
“I've hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it's the only way to deal with things.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie
“I’ve hoarded your name in my mouth for months. My throat is a beehive pitched in the river. Look! Look how long this love can hold its breath.”
Source: Today Means Amen
“I've hugged teammates after victories and screamed in their faces. I've thrust myself against big meaty bodies over and over again. I've grabbed men and tackled them to the grass. I've breathed their heat, and shared their water bottles, and sweated with them. But Billy is the first one I feel I'm allowed to be myself around. He's the only one I can grab...and do more with.”
Source: Football Sundae
“I’ve hungered for you in ways you can’t even imagine.”
Source: Dark Alpha's Awakening
“I've illuminated the blackness of my invisibility—and vice versa.”
Source: Invisible Man
“I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?”
Source: Ross Poldark
“I've just about stopped using the computer in class, because the kids are so distracted by the computers themselves," Ms. Valentine concludes. "I think it's the corporate world manipulating the public school system. It's a big show.”
Source: High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
“I've just become a character, we all have, in a story we don't get to write ourselves.”
Source: The Things a Brother Knows
“I've just been around long enough to see many sides of what our lovely evil boy-god Eros can be like. You see, there is a reason that Eros uses arrows to ensnare our hearts rather than strings or even chains. Because it is usually the person who is beyond our grasp, the last person we should love who pierces our heart.”
“I’ve just been transferred to Kanglung,” I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wipes his runny nose on his sleeve and looks up. “Oh, miss,” he says sadly. “Please don’t go.”
“Just a minute,” I say, and go into the bathroom. I latch the door and turn on the tap full force. When the water is running noisily, I lean my hot forehead against the damp, flaking concrete, and cry.”
Source: Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
“I’ve just been vague and confusing to people ever since”
“I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove the pistol to the back of his head, and shoot. Once, I even did two at the same time, but they were really drunk.”
Poul-Erik aka ‘Willy’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
Source: The Informer
“I've just begin to realize that the capacity to be interested is a luxury, you know? It gets handed down like property.”
Source: Poor George
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never was so stirred since I was born. I heard four speeches which I can never forget... one by that splendid old soul, Col. Bob Ingersoll, — oh, it was just the supremest combination of English words that was ever put together since the world began... How handsome he looked, as he stood on that table, in the midst of those 500 shouting men, and poured the molten silver from his lips! What an organ is human speech when it is played by a master! How pale those speeches are in print, but how radiant, how full of color, how blinding they were in the delivery! It was a great night, a memorable night.
I doubt if America has seen anything quite equal to it. I am well satisfied I shall not live to see its equal again... Bob Ingersoll’s music will sing through my memory always as the divinest that ever enchanted my ears. And I shall always see him, as he stood that night on a dinner-table, under the flash of lights and banners, in the midst of seven hundred frantic shouters, the most beautiful human creature that ever lived... You should have seen that vast house rise to its feet; you should have heard the hurricane that followed. That's the only test! People might shout, clap their hands, stamp, wave their napkins, but none but the master can make them get up on their feet.
{Twain's letter to his wife, Livy, about friend Robert Ingersoll's incredible speech at 'The Grand Banquet', considered to be one of the greatest oratory performances of all time}”
Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“I’ve just found out I’m allergic to nut-cases”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2
“I’ve just got this restless ache at the centre of me. I’m worried it’s infected. I’m worried it’s spreading to my heart.”
Source: Wishing for Birds
“I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind”
Source: Seeking Crystal
“I've just stepped into the kitchen when Rosie's glass fall and shatters on the living room floor, inches from Cookie's ear.
(page 54)”
Source: Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
“I've just stopped talking to you. It seems so strange. It's perfectly peaceful here--they're playing bowls--I'd just put flowers in your room. And there you sit with the bombs falling around you.
What can one say-- except that I love you and I've got to live through this strange quiet evening thinking of you sitting there alone.
Dearest-- let me have a line...
You have given me such happiness...”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. Five: 1932-1935
“I've kept . . .treasures because fragments of . . .stories are contained in them, and I have honored that.
I think of my family. Objects passed from hand to hand. Stories told, others not talked about. Dear friends and acquaintances recount stories of their own. In public places, behind walls and doors, voices rise. Stories float up and are deposited into the trunk of our collective unconscious. We have only to coax a lock to set the stories free.”
Source: Bag Lady: A Memoir
“I’ve killed fifty-two people. But really all I want is to get my hands on her. I’d be happy with fifty-three. Just one more and I’ll be satisfied.”
Source: Half Lost
“I've killed people before, Razor, and that shit...it changes everything and it doesn't just change you. It's an avalanche to everyone around[-]”
Source: Walk the Edge
“I've killed people. I've tortured people. Sometimes under orders. Sometimes to stay alive. I need to be clear on this, Sydney. So you know who I am.”
Source: Ambush
“I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.”
Source: Evening Star
“I've known a lot of
hummingbirds. I used to
be one too. But then
I grew.
An ostrich now,
I listen. I wait.
Grounded (but quick
when I need to be).
I've still got
that sprint in me.”
“I've known all sorts of fear - fear of pain, fear of discovery, fear of capture. This is new. This is the kind of fear that teaches me the difference between trying to stay alive, and wanting to live.”
Source: A Promise of Fire
“I've known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible.”
Source: The Crossing of Ingo
“I’ve known for a long time; my mind and thoughts and actions all steered toward her. A love that only strengthened with each passing heartbeat. A love not new but everlasting, rooted in friendship and trust and faith.”
Source: Unity
“I’ve known him a long time. I admire him. Hell, I might even love him. He helped me when—well, he helped me, and I owe him. He never lies, never plays games. He always says what he means and means what he says. And he has made it clear you’re off-limits.”
Source: The One You Want
“I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.”
“I’ve known men who fought in wars to liberate the Jews from Hitler. I’ve known men who sewed their own buttons on their clothes. I’ve known men who talked with a lisp and wore paisley shirts, and men who could chop down trees, and run heavy equipment. Other men were more comfortable in a suit and tie, with soft hands, and a penchant for math, or words. Some men are adventurers, others prefer comic books. Masculinity has never just been one thing.”
“I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.”
Source: Medea